Please provide option to permanently disable / enable dark mode for the Reading Pane. My preference would be to have it disabled. Currently having to switch it for each message is a real pane and not intuitive at all, especially given the fact that if you navigate away from the message and then come back, you have to toggle dark mode off again.

I received an update to Outlook today, and low and behold, the now default option of a Dark Reading Pane has been forced on me. While I understand that some users may want this option and the option to toggle the light mode reading pane was implemented, I do not understand why there is no option within Outlook to set the default.

Please Microsoft, do not assume what works best for your users. What we want is the ability to customize the UI to suit our needs. I do not want an all or nothing Dark Mode. It is a poor decision of any developer to change a default behavior and not give the user the option to return to a previous state. Please fix this!

I want Dark Mode... but not in my reading pane aka actual emails. What the what? Today's latest update killed the comfortable middle ground and it's either ALL DARK or ALL WHITE and my eyes can't take either. It's crazy and there is no compromise. What happened here? Please give us the option for Dark Mode with a light mode reading pane for reading/composing/sending email. Thanks!

I almost universally prefer dark mode, but the outlook dark mode is so hard to read and poorly designed (IMHO) that I too would welcome a light mode option. I suggest you also find some good UX designers to review your dark mode implementation.